Blame it on the budget that is the word from the director of the national zoo in Washington explaining a series of recent deaths. On Wednesday a four month old -- -- forceful was found dead at the zoo's conservation biology institute in Front Royal Virginia. -- it was owned by the Smithsonian Institution and has recently lost a pregnant could do a gazelle and a red river -- Zoo officials point what they call their increasingly stretched resource is is partially to blame.

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